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Stewart spent a lifetime wandering through the American landscape, wondering about its geography and history, and writing books about it.

He was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, in But the family soon moved to Indiana, Pennsylvania, where Stewart spent his boyhood; then, when he was 12, to Southern California.

George stewart biography George Rippey Stewart Jr. (May 31, – August 22, ) was an American historian, toponymist, novelist, and a professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His book Pickett's Charge, a detailed history of the final attack at the Battle of Gettysburg, was termed "essential for an understanding of the Battle of.

Hiking through the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Mountains, Stewart developed a passion for California&#;s history, natural history, and landscapes. Maybe it was his Scottish heritage, a mirror of the grand tradition of Stewarts through the centuries.

Stewart loved to travel, by foot or road. When his mother insisted he attend Princeton, family legend suggests that he traveled, at least part of the way, by &#;riding the rods&#; &#; traveling on a rod underneath a railroad passenger car.

In , barely recovered from pneumonia, he hitchhiked west on the National Old Trails Road (later U. S. 40 and Route 66). After World War I, in , he bicycled more than miles through Europe &#; including an icy passage over the Alps. His honeymoon trip with wife Ted (Theodosia Burton Stewart, daughter of the President of the University of Michigan) from Michigan to his new job at UC Berkeley was a cross-country drive on the primitive roads of (The guests at the wedding, appropriately, included Mr.

and Mrs. Henry Ford.)

UC Berkeley was one of the most remarkable wellsprings of ideas and institutions this world has known.

George stewart biography wikipedia The Wikipedia page about Stewart; Stewart was one of the founders of the American Name Society, and provided their journal with a number of papers and essays. U. C. Berkeley Special Collections has extensive transcribed interviews with Stewart; Guide to the George Rippey Stewart Papers at The Bancroft Library; UNR’s Special Collection of.

The National Park Service (founded by Berkeley graduates) established its educational and research headquarters on the campus, E. O. Lawrence split the atom, Aldo Leopold&#;s son Starker wrote the classic report on wildlife in National Parks, Carl Sauer developed new directions for the study of geography, Chiura Obata taught new, Asian methods of painting to his students, Bernard Maybeck designed classic Arts and Crafts buildings.

(And the list goes on.) Stewart learned well from colleagues, especially those, like Sauer and Leopold, in geography and history; then wove their knowledge into his works.

Stewart was a exceptional scholar-author, described by his friend Joseph Henry Jackson as a &#;poet and precisionist.&#; He invented several types of books &#; the microhistory, the ecological novel, the place-names history, the highway-as-guide book.

The popularity and influence of his works is widespread: One of his works, Earth Abides, has been in print for 60 years and is now available in twenty languages.

Another, Storm, is the book which popularized the practice of naming storms.

So although many don&#;t know his name, everyone knows at least one thing that Stewart did &#; he gave us the practice of naming storms.

And, since he named his storm &#;Maria,&#; &#;They call the wind Maria.&#;

An academic biography of George R. Stewart, written by Dr. Frederick Oswin Waage, was published in and reissued in Yet Stewart is not well-known to the literati of today.

George stewart earth abides An academic biography of George R. Stewart, written by Dr. Frederick Oswin Waage, was published in and reissued in Yet Stewart is not well-known to the literati of today. That is beginning to change; and these pages are designed to accelerate the change, and bring Stewart and his works to the wide reputation that are deserved.

That is beginning to change; and these pages are designed to accelerate the change, and bring Stewart and his works to the wide reputation that are deserved.

 

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Finally, though, we have Donald Scott's literary biography of Stewart. As Don playfully put it in an early announcement, it is

Seeking GeoS

The Life, Work and Truth
of eco-novelist
George R.

Stewart

by
Donald M. Scott

a book dedicated to Librarians, and others

 

&#; If there is to be a poet in these modern times, he must go out for himself and must gain much wisdom. He must look deeply into the world, and far into time, even though he sees both the world and time from some little microcosm like Sheep Rock Spring.&#;

&#; George R.

Stewart, Sheep Rock

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Biographical notes &#; Donald M. Scott.

 

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